In each of Alan Furstâs 14 novels about spiesânot spy novels, he insists there is a differenceâcharacters inevitably end up dining at Brasserie Heininger in Paris. The fictional restaurant, based on the real Brasserie Bofinger, with its opulent marble staircase and shucked oysters, represents the glamour and the joie de ...
There is a tradition, more prominent in theater than in fiction, of the unwanted guest. One thinks of such works as Kaufman and Hartâs 1939 play The Man Who Came to Dinner; the 1967 Stanley Kramer-directed Guess Whoâs Coming to Dinner... ...
The Holocaust (Shoah) and the Nakba (al-Karitha) share three characteristics. First, both terms mean catastrophe, disaster or calamity. ...
Refugees are flocking to the European continent in ever-growing numbers, and Europeans show increasing resistance to accepting them. ...
It is Book Week in Tel Aviv. At Rabin Square, the tables are loaded with volumes, old and new, light and heavy, and buyers are leafing through them as they move from one publisherâs table to the next. ...
When I started at Moment more than six years ago, I quickly gravitated toward the magazineâs books section. It wasnât long before every review copy of a new book that arrived at the office landed on my desk. ...